Word: shallowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn air is heavy and still; a typhoon is expected. From the citadel high over Moncay, the réveil sounds. Men of the French Foreign Legion tumble out of bed muttering in French, German, all the languages of Europe. Down in the dark valley across the shallow, gravelly Song Kalong River, dividing line between Indo-China and Red China, there is also a stirring. Guards in new olive-green uniforms are running up a red flag with one big white star in the corner and four small stars. They are Chinese Communist soldiers, three battalions of them...
...troubles with Nobody's ability to handle them. On page 11 he meets an "older woman" of 26 on a London tram. Only 20, and at his author's mercy, "Randall saw the full lips and not the weak chin," and so they were married. "Her hot shallow passion . . . roused convulsive feelings in Randall . . . The deep wells within him gushed with tenderness . . . And then peace descended on them both . . . like night coming down upon a tropical sunset"-in a London hotel...
Thayer was a one-play team that year. Captain Brandy Lovely passed to Gerry Murphy; one of the two ends would cross either shallow or deep as the situation required...
...Help Me!" As I dashed up the slope of the beach, I got my first look at Wolmi Island's defenders. Three or four half-naked North Korean soldiers, hands held rigid over their pinched, scared faces, stumbled into one of their old shallow trenches at the command of a marine. I talked to them in Japanese. "Are you going to kill us?" stammered one. When I said we wouldn't, he chattered to the others and a little of the fear went out of their eyes...
...once simpler and subtler than the others, Manzu had modeled his door in very shallow, incised bas-relief to achieve an effect of depth through drawing and flat planes. The large left-hand panel of his door showed such great teacher-saints as John the Baptist, Augustine, Benedict, Ignatius and John Bosco. The right-hand panel included such confessor-and martyr-saints as Francis of Assisi, Dominic and Joan...